Jason Zada’s horror film Terrarium uses AI to generate its entire set

Actors perform without physical sets

Four teenagers play the lead roles while standing on a well-lit soundstage. The production team hides twenty-six crew members behind black tarps because there is no road or tunnel to film. Actors look at monitors instead of real environments as they act out their scenes.

Technology replaces traditional props

A team of fifteen to twenty AI artists generates the locations and props around the human performers. Specific items like a convenience store and an underground tunnel are created digitally rather than built physically. Nearly everything in the movie except the humans themselves will be generated using artificial intelligence.